Learning multi-level weight-centric features for few-shot learning

作者:

Highlights:

• We propose a weight-centric learning strategy that helps reduce the interclass variance of novel-class data.

• We propose a multi-level feature learning framework, which demonstrates its strong prototype-ability and transferability even in a cross-task environment for few-shot learning.

• We extensively evaluate our approach on two low-shot classification benchmarks in both standard and generalized FSL learning settings. Our results show that the mid-level features exhibit strong transferability even in a cross-task environment while the relation-level features help preserve base-class accuracy in the generalized FSL setting.

摘要

•We propose a weight-centric learning strategy that helps reduce the interclass variance of novel-class data.•We propose a multi-level feature learning framework, which demonstrates its strong prototype-ability and transferability even in a cross-task environment for few-shot learning.•We extensively evaluate our approach on two low-shot classification benchmarks in both standard and generalized FSL learning settings. Our results show that the mid-level features exhibit strong transferability even in a cross-task environment while the relation-level features help preserve base-class accuracy in the generalized FSL setting.

论文关键词:Fewshot learning,Low-shot learning,Multi-level features,Image classification

论文评审过程:Received 4 May 2021, Revised 26 February 2022, Accepted 19 March 2022, Available online 24 March 2022, Version of Record 1 April 2022.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2022.108662